Education: Smoothie Complex

When Francis Scott Key (This Side
of Paradise) Fitzgerald went there (Class of 1917), Princeton
University was called a "country club." This was partly
because Princeton is a pleasant countryside community, partly because
its undergraduates were supposed to loll about with smooth hair and
natty clothes indulging their social instincts. In the decade after
the War. the "country club" stigma wore off. This was
principally because Princeton could then beat Yale and Harvard at
football. There were giants in those great days "Stan"
Keck, "Al" Wittmer, "Hank" Garrity, Don Lourie,...